Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:32:25 +0200 | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2012-discuss] [ATTEND or not ATTEND] That's the question! |
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On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 07:29:06AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 12:50:05 +0200 (CEST) > Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote: > > > A good start would be if you could convert your kernel statistics into > > accounting the consolidation effects of contributions instead of > > fostering the idiocy that corporates have started to measure themself > > and the performance of their employees (I'm not kidding, it's the sad > > reality) with line and commit count statistics. > > I would dearly love to come up with a way to measure "real work" in > some fashion; I've just not, yet, figured out how to do that. I do > fear that the simple numbers we're able to generate end up creating the > wrong kinds of incentives. > > Any thoughts on how to measure "consolidation effects"? I toss out > numbers on code removal sometimes, but that turns out to not be a whole > lot more useful than anything else on its own.
I fear there is no reliable automated way to measure that :)
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